69 and Nagrand

Two bars of experience was much easier than I expected. It took me all of 30 minutes to ding 69 last night. After dinging I noticed that coincidentally, I have all but two bars of rested experience going to level 70. After turning in quests along the way it will mean that all of level 70 will be rested, making the grind that much easier.

I started the night pushing my way through quests and first by rescuing Corki from the Ogres. For those that don’t know, Corki is the son of one of the broken in Telaar who keeps getting captured by Ogres. He is an idiot. But quest experience is quest experience. No complaints here. While working my way through these Ogres a call went out over the Penny Arcade Alliance chat for a DPS for Ring of Blood. I jumped at the chance because it is a ton of experience and gold.

I teamed up with a 70 Paladin and Shaman, a 69 Warlock and a 64 Mage. We burned through Ring of Blood really quickly and during it I dinged 69! That is just how much experience you get. The rewards at the end weren’t too spectacular and in the end I just sold the Axe I got. I’m still surprised that I’m using the Warsong Howling Axe from Blood Furnace. I’ll replace it someday.

I then asked in general chat if anyone wanted to do the Mastery Quests and quickly found a group of five people who wanted them. It was a decently mixed group that included a Warrior, Shaman, Druid and another Hunter. The Shaman unfortunately didn’t have the Banthar quest when we killed him, but tagged along anyways. We burned through Bachalor and Gutripped pretty quickly as well. I then made the suggestion that we help the Shaman finish his Clefthooves and every unanimously agreed to help out. So we cleared them out for him and turned in and then went back and killed Banthar a second time. We then waited for him to do his turn in and all met up at Tusker. Another quick kill and Hemet’s Elekk Gun was officially mine.

I then went back to my guide and headed to the Northwind Cleft to kill Ogres. It was absolutely infested with Horde and I got ganked a couple times by 70s leading around low 60s, but in the end I got my quest done and heather back to Telaar.

This all took longer than I expected and I called it a night but I am still 1/3 of the way to 70! I think I can push it all out tonight!